I want to run a background scheduler in my web application. This scheduler will check the current time and if it matches with the programmed time then it sends a E-mail. How can i create background Scheduler ?
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2It's called a cron job. You almost can find it at your server control panel. – Tariq Jan 27 '16 at 17:35
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you're looking at it wrong. pretty much every modern OS already HAS a "background scheduler". You just need to hook into your specific operating system's version of it and tell it to schedule your php script. – Marc B Jan 27 '16 at 17:37
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i want to add scheduler within my application. – Zala Krunal Jan 27 '16 at 17:42
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i don't have any knowledge of cron job. – Zala Krunal Jan 27 '16 at 17:43
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It depends if you want to run a script in background via command line, than you can use exec command: exec
Or if you want to start another thread, than you can use pthreads
If you want to have a job that executes at a certain time or in certain intervals, you can set up a cronjob. This tutorial is very helpful, and if you are on linux you can look at this documentation.
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yes i want to run a script in a background which will check the current time and if it matches with the time of script then it should send a mail to particular email id. – Zala Krunal Jan 27 '16 at 17:40
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